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Genealogists Master Guide to the various Spellings of Irish Family Names

Genealogists Master Guide to the various Spellings of Irish Family Names

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Genealogists Master Guide to the various Spellings of Irish Family Names

The Master Guide to Irish Family Name spellings:

The Master Name Collection
The is the master collection of Irish Family Names
and variant spelling groups. It includes over 18,000
names as found in the 17th and 19th century.

Find Your Spelling Group
Most are divided into spelling groups, which capture
other ways your name was spelled in the records you are
researching. The rules of Irish surname spellings are also
given here.

Rare and Common Spellings included
All common spellings of names like Murphy, Kelly, Donahue,
Kennedy, Walsh and Sullivan are included. They appear together
with rarer spellings of names, and are linked together to help
find your family name in the records. Rare, one of a kind names
are given too. This book may provide a clue to the origins
of your name as a result.

How Your Name has Changed
Numerous real life examples will help you understand
the actual ways in which your name was changed. In fact,
there are more documented examples here, than in any
other book in print.
This work is great for identifying common names and
rare spelling variants of Irish names. It also gives many
names that were changed completely. There is no way
of listing all the examples and spellings given in the book
here, but some interesting examples of rarer spellings include
names like:

One of A Kind
This is a one of a kind work on the spellings of Irish Names. It is of special interest
to family researchers and those that study the usage of language. When we say
'Irish Family Names', it includes the names of those who settled in Ireland from England,
Scotland, Wales, and the continent of Europe. Those names are sometimes called
'settler names', and many of these families became 'more Irish than the Irish themselves'.
Variant spelling groups include those of Matheson in the 1800's and others.
(It is not a collection of family histories, but rather a collection of family names and
spellings of related names.) It also includes data from the Master Book of Irish Surnames, which is no longer available. (2007)

Spiral Bound with lay flat binding, for easy reference to all the names and
spellings found in the Irish archives here. indexed. (2007) ISBN 0-940134-918.